The Biophysical Society is proud to announce that it has named seven distinguished members as its 2023 Class of Fellows. This award is given to Society members who have demonstrated sustained excellence in science and have contributed to the expansion of the field of biophysics. The newest honorees will be recognized during the Biophysical Society’s 67th Annual Meeting in San Diego. The 2023 Fellows are:
Nancy Carrasco, Vanderbilt University, USA, for her broad-reaching studies of the sodium/iodide transporter, including cloning and structure determination together with its roles in physiology and disease, and her impressive service to the biophysics community.
Ka Yee C. Lee, University of Chicago, USA, for her impactful and creative contributions to our understanding of the structure and stability of lipid membranes and their interactions with proteins.
Boris Martinac, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia, for his pioneering recording of bacterial ion channels in their native membranes and the discovery of mechanosensitive MscL/S currents, ultimately defining protein, gene, crystal structure, and beyond.
Daniel L. Minor, Jr., University of California, San Francisco, USA, for his influential contributions to the structural understanding of ion channel modulation by proteins and small molecules.
William E. Moerner, Stanford University, USA, for achieving the first optical detection and spectroscopy of a single molecule in condensed phases and for establishing optical study of single-molecules for broad applications in biophysics.
Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, for his sustained contributions to spectroscopy, from heme proteins through fluorescent proteins to the interaction of proteins with nanoparticles.
Catherine A. Royer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, for her fundamental contributions to the understanding and exploitation of pressure effects on protein conformation, and the biophysical mechanisms underlying transcriptional control of cell state transitions.